Abstract
In this book we reconsider some central notions of Plato's moral psychology and political philosophy, with a special focus on the relation between the city and human soul. Starting with Plato's own premise "like soul, like city", we comment upon a wide variety of dialogues ranging from the Socratic dialogues such as Meno or Laches where ethics closely connects to epistemology, through the Republic with its new proposal for philosophical education, to the longest and in some respects enigmatic Laws.
The shared intention of all three authors is to demonstrate that the keystone of these apparently diverg- ing inquiries is the issue of virtue (arete), which needs to be explicitly grasped as a necessary condition of the proper life of the soul and, consequently, of any well-ordered city